After the worldwide shame of, and New Zealand’s contribution to, failed male athletes cleaning up in women’s sport after tucking in their bits and stuffing themselves with female hormones, this story about British female athletes fighting back against unfair competition is a breath of fresh air.
British women’s cycling was saved from the temerity of a male cyclist entering the women’s British National Omnium Championship as a transgender woman.
According to Union Cycliste Internationale, Emily Bridges is registered as a male cyclist and therefore cannot race as a woman until his male ID expires. However, this cyclist was ballsy enough to give it a go.
The transition from male to female can take up to five years although some physical changes start in a month and men transitioning to women can expect to grow breasts within 2-3 years. Bridges came out about his gender dysphoria in 2020.
Bridges, 21, set a national junior men’s record over 25 miles in 2018, the Guardian said, adding that the cyclist began hormone therapy last year to reduce testosterone levels.
…Bridges was involved with the Great Britain Academy program as a male cyclist until being dropped in 2020.
The most pleasing part of this story is that the female athletes got together and threatened to boycott the event if Bridges was permitted to race. This is a turnaround for female athletes, showing that some at least are now taking the threat of transgender-ism destroying women’s sport very seriously indeed.
Generally, men have a larger physique and bigger muscle mass than women.
A comprehensive scientific review by the five British sports councils in September said there were “retained differences in strength, stamina, and physique between the average woman compared with the average transgender woman or non-binary person registered male at birth”.
Blaze Media
This is the first account that I have read about female athletes fighting back against unfair competition and it bodes well for the future of women’s sport. If female athletes do not resist transgender-ism, their future is doomed.
Bridges was disappointed about the decision but if sports organisations had stopped avoiding the issue of transgender participation then Bridges might have weighed up the fact that he would not be allowed to participate in women’s competitions if he decided to transition.
Women have to be more aggressive about protecting their sport from the threat posed by biological men. If men who were considering transitioning were made aware that they would not be allowed to participate in women’s sports after transitioning, the problem would not exist.
Taking up a sporting career is heavily aligned with natural physical abilities and success in sports depends heavily on those attributes. A six-foot teenage girl, for example, would not be encouraged to pursue a ballet career as a principal dancer, because her height is a defining and limiting factor.
Men competing in women’s sports should be viewed the same way. Men’s physical attributes make their involvement in women’s sports completely unfair, apart from the obvious fact that their biological sex should have precluded their involvement in the first place!